The Last Dance

4★ “The coloured lights from more than a million lamps seem to dance above the town’s main street and their reflections shimmer on the surface of the black sea just beyond. On the street itself, a thousand neon signs dazzle and buzz and the slow-moving traffic has become a pulsating necklace of red a......more

2.5 Stars A new detective series from a bestselling author (my first by him). I knew I wanted to give it a try, but after pretty good start, it ended up in the lackluster pile. The detective, Declan Miller, was likeable enough, but his humor got cheesy after a while. He is assigned to a new murder cas......more

This is a first in a series which features protagonist, widowed DS Declan Miller. He is a detective who appears emotionally unready to be back at work, but here he is, facing a case involving the murder of two men. Readers will recognize immediately his loss, as he has many mental discussions about......more

I kept thinking of the quote by Fran Lebowitz while I read this book, “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door.” With that in mind, the fact that this author wanted to write a “humorous” book is not enough. I cannot believe the amount of stars this book has received. It is......more

A new series from author Mark Billingham features sarcastic and irreverent DS Declan Miller. In this opening story, Miller is teamed up with a new partner, Xiu (which Miller will point out rhymes with Jus as in Au Jus). Xiu doesn’t know whether to take Miller seriously or not, and Miller, for his pa......more